Swilland Moon & Mushroom
opening hours
- Mon: closed
- Tue: 1700-2200
- Wed: 1200-1500, 1700-2200
- Thu: 1700-2200
- Fri-Sat: 1200-2200
- Sun: 1200-1800
food times
- Mon: closed
- Tue: 1730-2100
- Wed: 1230-1400, 1730-2100
- Thu: 1700-2100
- Fri: 1230-1400, 1730-2100
- Sat: 0930-1100, 1230-1400, 1730-2100
- Sun: 1230-1600
guest beers
This pub serves 4 guest ales.
source: Local
Local licensing authority for Swilland is East Suffolk
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Jun 7th, 2020.
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Swilland Moon & Mushroom
formerly Half Moon
South East, 52.12601,1.19113
Cask Ale is sold here.
High Rd, IP6 9LR
grid reference TM 185 523
traditional bar & dinner, opened 1620 or earlier
A comfortable and cosy single bar pub and restaurant, decorated with local pictures, and with tiled floor and scrubbed tables. A range of beers on gravity is available from the tap room and home-cooked food is is served both in the bar and an adjoining dining room.
Outdoor seating is also available to the front and side of the pub, including a small heated area for smokers. Externally, there is also a rose garden.
There is a toilet for disabled customers.
There's been an inn on this site since at least 1620, when it was a coaching inn.
At one time when the Ipswich and East Suffolk branch of Camra held a meeting here, the editor of What's Brewing misunderstood the details, so the magazine announced a meeting at the Swill and Half Moon.
Facilities
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served direct from the barrel by gravity
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Real fire
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Smoking area
Special events: See website and/or Instagram page
WiFi available: Free, ask at bar for key
Railway station about 3.5 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Westerfield: 3.5 miles (5.6km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Barley Mow 1.25 miles
Cross Keys 1.96 miles
White Hart 2.3 miles
Fountain 2.4 miles
Swan 2.9 miles
Man on the Moon 3.6 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: free
Formerly the Half Moon, recently released into the free trade and renamed by its fungi loving landlord. With dining area at rear the rest of the pub is steadily returning to its roots, with wooden furniture, open fires and the reintroduction of gravity dispensed beer. The beer range is expected to evolve with time.
Beers: Adnams Bitter; Ind Coope Friary Meux BB; guest beerCAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Steve Podd reports: Originally a Cobbold beer house (tithe map – landlord Robert Stagg). It is shown as the Half Moon on a farm map of 1809.
The pub was owned by Tolly Cobbold until 1992. It was renamed the Moon & Mushroom in 1996…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
